Tag: Information and communication technologies
Agro-processing, manufacturing and ICT offer opportunities for Indian investments in SADC region: Exim Bank
26 Mar 19 NewsThe Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) released a new publication entitled ‘India-SADC Trade and Investment Relations: Harnessing The Potential’ during the Inaugural Sessi...
Africa’s infrastructure deficit under spotlight as PIDA Week 2018 opens in Victoria Falls
26 Nov 18 NewsThe Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2018 opened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on Monday with a media breakfast that brought together journalists, infra...
African policymakers seek consensus to drive growth of ICT sector
14 Aug 18 NewsSenior African policymakers on Monday resolved to adopt a common position aimed at propelling growth of ICT sector and embed it in the Continent’s transformation agenda.
The pol...
Value Chains in the Global South: Case Studies of the Cape Town ICT Sector
25 Oct 17 PublicationsICT services are a critical input into development since unlike any other service, they are able to shift the production possibility frontier outward over time and enable better ut...
Is any stakeholder happy with the ICT Policy White Paper?
16 Feb 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – Information and Communication Technologies, comments on the debate surrounding the recently-published ICT Policy White Paper for South Afric...
Data, ICT developments and the Continental Free Trade Area
18 Jan 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – Information and Communication Technologies, comments on the inaugural UN World Data Forum held in Cape Town and the ongoing CFTA negotiation...
Mauritius ICT/BPO Industry Review: 2016 a year marked by growth for the sector
17 Jan 17 NewsThe ICT/BPO Industry Review 2016 report, highlighting 2016 as a rejuvenation year for the sector characterised by growth and diversification of most companies with a shift from ‘...
Technology and innovation
04 Jan 17 ThemesInnovation and new technologies are key drivers of economic growth in today’s globalised economy. Promoting innovation has thus become a critical regional and national policy obj...
Transport and ICT projects financed by the AfDB in 2015 to create thousands of jobs, increase mobility and improve the lives of millions
11 Jul 16 NewsThe impacts arising from investments made by the African Development Bank Group in 2015 will collectively improve mobility of at least 1.2 million users of public transport, result...
How ICT-driven concept can boost Africa’s trade ranking
17 Mar 16 NewsAfrican countries must join others around the world in adopting the National Single Window Environment, an ICT-based concept, to eliminate the bureaucracy posing a challenge to tra...
ITU releases annual global ICT data and ICT Development Index country rankings
01 Dec 15 NewsITU’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society Report, released on 30 November 2015, reveals that 3.2 billion people are now online, representing 43.4% of the global pop...
ICTs Services Development and Trade: How Africa Can Benefit
10 Sep 15 PublicationsThis paper examines services made possible by new information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are capable of being domestically and internationally traded. The emphasis ...
Science, ICT critical to Africa’s future – Kagame
14 Mar 14 NewsThe importance of science, technology, research and innovation in shaping the socio-economic transformation of nations cannot be overstated, President Paul Kagame has said.
In sub...